A U.S. News and World Report blogger wrote that women who pursue difficult vocations – like political office or being an Olympic-caliber athlete – while simultaneously raising young children often receive, shall we say, unkind feedback. more

Good news for women who are looking for part-time MBA programs while they’re raising their kids, reports the Wall Street Journal’s Sue Shellenbarger. Some MBA programs which don’t require full-time hours are cropping up around the country and, as a result, more women are earning advanced degrees, she reported more

Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan thoroughly depressed me the other day when she wrote a column about a new “happiness” study which said that while women get older and marginalized by society, men get happier. more

Want to catch up on the presidential race and all manner of politics but do so by looking through women's eyes? Go to this web site and peruse one of the hundreds of web sites of women who blog on politics. (August 2008) more

If her husband is elected president, Michelle Obama told a group of Obama supporters that her priority will be on serving as "mom-in-chief" to the couple’s 10- and 7-year-old daughters. "My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief, making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls . . . that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe." Obama said, according to the Associated Press. (August 2008) more

While writing about her experiences trying to break into the journalism field decades ago when organizations like the National Press Club openly discriminated against women, Wall Street Journal reporter and working mother Joann S. Lublin said she’s frustrated by the lack of women’s progress in the work world. "I don't blame such setbacks on misogynist men," Lublin wrote. "I blame complacent women. Too many women take for granted that they will enjoy equal status and opportunity on the job. They are too young to remember the barriers that their mothers and other older women battled years ago." (August 2008) more

A non-profit organization polled over 900 American women who gave birth to a baby in the hospital in 2005 and has provided a snapshot of women’s experiences after childbirth. The Childbirth Connection survey – which addressed issues such as maternal depression, sleep deprivation and breastfeeding – also examined the status of new mothers’ employment situations. more

A downsizing economy, not opting out of the workforce to raise children, is behind a drop in the number of women in the workforce, a new federal report says. “[F]or the first time since the women’s movement came to life, an economic recovery has come and gone, and the percentage of women at work has fallen, not risen,” the New York Times reported, citing the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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“There is no stereotype for first lady anymore,” Lisa Caputo, Hillary Clinton’s former White House communications director told The New York Times. “We’ve evolved as a country beyond one image.” The paper compared and contrasted Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain with recent first spouses, particularly on the career front, identifying Clinton as the first first spouse who ran with her husband as “a modern career woman who weighed in on policy.” (August 2008) more

News flash: A new study by a British parenting web site owned by Disney says that 84 percent of working moms with kids under the age of 7 are “physically worn out” and 68 percent are completely exhausted. In other news, the sun is widely expected to rise tomorrow. (August 2008) more